The Red and the Black
$35.96
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2004
Summary
An exhilarating new translation, new introduction, and explanatory notes make this edition the one to have.
A Major New Translation
The Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel’s quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812972078 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812972074 |
| Author: | Stendhal, Burton Raffel, Diane Johnson |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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”[Burton Raffel’s] exciting new translation ofThe Red and the Blackblasts Stendhal into the twenty-first century.” -Salon.com
“[Burton Raffel’s] exciting new translation of The Red and the Black blasts Stendhal into the twenty-first century.”—Salon.com
About The Author
Stendhal
STENDHAL (Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served in Napoleon’s cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris, where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical Life of Henri Brulard, The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842.
BURTON RAFFEL is a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His many translations include Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Chretien de Troyes’s Arthurian Romances, Cervantes’s Don Quijote, and Balzac’s P re Goriot. His translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million copies.
DIANE JOHNSON Is the author of ten novels-most recently Le Mariage and Le Divorce-two books of essays, two biographies, and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s classic film The Shining. She has been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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